Driving-rein spur



(No Model.)

F. B. BEVER.

Delvme REIN SPUR. No. 319,179. Patented .Tu-11e 2, 1885..

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5PECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.v319,179,1dated June 2, 1885. Application iilcdApril T, 1SS5. (Xo model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern:

.Be it known that I, FIELDTNG Bunnns BnvER, of Ottawa, in the county of Franklin and State of Kansas, have inventedanew and Improved Rein-Line Spur, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention has for its object the substitution for the whip of a spur in driving one or more horses, either when attached to a vehicle or hitched to a plow, Ste.; and it consists in a spur, attached to the rein-line,of peculiar construction, substantially as herein shown and described, and whereby on slapping thehorse with the rein-line the attached spur is prothe iiank or rear portion of the animal.

|lihe invention will be found of great advantage in driving a span of horses to urge the one horse to keep pace with its mate, especially when one horse of the pair will not bear the whip while the other will. It will alsobe a great advantage over the whip when plowing and the team walks slowly, inasmuch as the line is always in hand, andit is customary and natural for the driver to slap the horse with the line, and when a horse scares and there is not time to reach the whip, the line having the spur attached may be used to slap the horse with, which will be found equal to all or most emergencies.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the iigures.

Figure lrepresents a view in perspective of a rein-line in part having the spur attachment applied, Figs. 2 and 3, sections of the same, taken longitudinally and transversely of the rein-line. Fig. 4 is a partially broken or sectional longitudinal view of a modified construction of the invention.

Referring in the first instance, or more particularly to Figs. l, 2, and 8 of the drawings, Aindicates a hollow ball or case of any suitable form and size constructed or provided with parallel intersecting plates b ZJ, through or between which the rein-line B is passed to admit of the proper placing or sliding ef the case on the line to adapt the spur tohorses of different sizes. Said case1iorms what may be termed the outer 7 shell-frame or prieker through and beyond carrier or holder oi the spur, and may either be of close or open work construction, as desired; but it is preferred to make it a close one and of spherical or prclate spheroidal shape.

Secured to the plates b needles or prickers, c c, through and beyond the case at differentpoints in its surface or around it. Perforated inwardly and outwardly sliding protecting-caps d d are arranged to inclose theprotruding end portions of the needles or prickers c c. These caps rest at their inner ends upon springs c e, arranged around the needles or otherwise, as desired, in order that the caps may be kept pressed outward, except when slapping the horse with the rein-line, when one or more of the caps of the whole device or spur coming in Contact with the animal, it or they will be forced in against the pressure of the springs e, and so expose the needle or needles and cause them to prick the horse.

The whole spur ordevice is or may be held to its required place on cf a spring-catch, f, secured within the case, and arranged to pass out therethrough and to engage with apertures in protruding ends of the plates b b and with any one of a series of apertures, s, in the rein-line.

The catch is here shown as made of springwire, and as secured about or around one of the prickers; but it may be of any suitable construction and be variously attached.

The yielding caps d prevent the needles or pri ckers from pricking the horse when not desired. The spur may be flttedwith any number of prickers c.

Instead of attaching the spur to the rein-line, as above described the line B may be transversely divided o Yfade in sections, so as not to pass through thefspur or case thereof, but to connect outside of the same with a stem or looped center bar, b', arranged to project b are any number of the case, as shown in Fig. 4, in which case the prickers c will be carried by said stem, and the one portion of the line may have a buckle-like slide, g, to adj ust the spur to the length 0r size of the horse.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentthe rein-line by means farranged to project i opposite sides or ends of 9 5 IOO l. A rein-line spur in which are combined a spring-catch for holding the spur at any decase-frane or priekenholder, a series `of' prosired point on the rein-line with the outer ease 15 jecting attached prickers, and yielding perfoor shell, A,V the prickers e, and the yielding rated spring protecting-caps arranged to inperforated protecting-caps d, substantially as 5 close the outer protruding ends of the priokspecified.

ers, substantially as and for the purpose or 4'. The case A of thespur,provded Withinpurposes specified. terseoting plates b b, in combination with the In a rein-line spur7 the combination of springoatch f and the perforated .rein-line B, the outer case or shell, A, the prickers o, the essentially as described.

IO outwardly and inwardly sliding protecting- FIELDING B. BEVER. caps d, and the springs e, essentially as shown Witnesses:

and described. WM. KILER,

3. In areiu-line spur, the combination of a JOHN T. BEVER. 

